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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ken Cooper, CPHIC March 2009
... direct contact exposures, RPEP should also be offered to people awakening to find a bat in their bedroom, even if ... ] The incidence of rabies preventable by providing RPEP to people with unrecognized exposure in the bedroom is thus ...
Letters March 2009
... competency to drive the vehicle, and that such testing in people over the age of 75 would save lives [ BCMJ 2008;50:550 ... Superintendant of Motor Vehicles’ job is to assure that people are competent to drive. Doctors should not have to ...
Letters / BY: Lorne Brandt, MD, March 2009
... Mackie’s listed benefits to using public transit. Many people decline using public transit because of time, saying ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP, April 2009
... to acknowledge the leadership and support of the following people, who all ensured the successful completion of this ...
Letters / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC April 2009
... effect. The placebo effect has been proven to make some people feel better, decreasing their anxiety, pain, and ...
Letters / BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine, April 2009
The Faculty of Medicine, now numbering 3600 people across the pro­vince, includes those who are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, May 2009
... the number of cases was already declining as a result of people leaving the area, Snow managed to reduce the number ... had numerous such organisms in their stools and healthy people did not. He described a “comma-shaped bacillus” ... But these factors are a gigantic challenge for millions of people living in pov­erty around the world. Thousands of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC May 2009
... the 1990s, crack cocaine has become more prevalent in BC. People who smoke crack may develop oral lesions and burns ... pipes, and HCV has been detected on crack paraphernalia. People who share crack pipes may therefore be at increased ... has hardened on the inside pipe wall. It was reported that people were using the plunger of syringes as push sticks, ...
Letters / BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine, May 2009
... heads, with further action being taken if required. People have become more aware of the benefits of transparency ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Gregory D. Deans, MD, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2009
... compared with the elderly.[ 2,3 ] In the United States, people over the age of 50 years have made up only 5% of ... of influenza-related complications among young children, people over the age of 65, pregnant women, and people with chronic medical conditions.[ 4 ] Proper infection ...